The Dott Store in Bethel Township was the scene of one of many debate-watch get-togethers taking place across the country Friday night.
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Anticipated gypsy moth spraying to decrease in 2009
By Chanin Rotz-Mountz STAFF WRITER
The Fulton County commissioners were updated Tuesday on the progress of the proposed residential spraying program to combat gypsy moths during 2009. More...
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Camp Sinoquipe is located in the Tuscarora Mountains of Fulton County, Pa., and has been operated by the Mason-Dixon Council of the Boy Scouts of America since 1946. It serves Scouts and Scouters primarily from a four-state region. More...
Cash prizes; winning photograph to be turned into mural
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The Fulton County Parks and Recreation Commission announced last week photograph entries are currently being accepted from Fulton County residents in conjunction with the creation of a community art room. More...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has confirmed three judges to the federal bench in eastern Pennsylvania. Mitchell Goldberg, Darnell Jones II and Joel Slomsky fill positions that were vacated because of retirements. More...
COCHRANTON, Pa. (AP) - Decades-old skeletal remains found in the abandoned stairwell of a home in northwestern Pennsylvania likely belonged to a fraternal lodge that once occupied the property, a coroner said. More...
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) - An Altoona man is being charged with theft after not returning more than $280,000 mistakenly deposited into his bank account. More...
The following couples applied for marriage licenses at the local courthouse during the past week: Michael Paul Gearhart, 28, Chambersburg, and Jennifer Sue Edwards, 29, Big Cove Tannery. More...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Authorities say a man has been arraigned in federal court in South Carolina on a charge of illegally purchasing the handgun used to kill a Philadelphia police officer this week. More...
Pictured, above, left are Brittany Parson, Jordan Smith and Hannah Ott, who recently attended a leadership conference in Washington, D.C. More...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania's highest court has ruled that an appellate court judge cannot refuse her 11 percent pay raise. More...
Brown and Kathy Cutchall would like to announce the engagement of their daughter Katie Jo Cutchall to James Richard Miller III. The future bride is the daughter Brown and Kathy Cutchall of Hustontown and Janis Cutchall of Mc- Connellsburg. More...
Sadie Creager would like to announce the birth of her baby brother, Landen James, on Thursday, June 26, at 11:57 a.m. He was born at Harrisburg Pinnacle Hospital weighing 8 pounds and was 19 1/2 inches long. More...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Arson is blamed for a fire that killed a woman and injured a man in Philadelphia. The woman jumped from a burning second-story apartment to escape the fire that broke out around 1 a.m. Thursday. More...
Former McConnellsburg resident Pete Seville pauses alongside the Vietnam Memorial Statue on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., after completing a bike ride from Greencastle where he now resides to commemorate the seventh anniversary of 9/11. More...
PITTSBUR GH (AP) - A federal judge in Pittsburgh says the Pennsylvania Turnpike workers union wrongly withheld more dues than necessary from seven workers who quit the union. The workers all quit Teamsters Local No. 250 in 2005. More...
EXPORT, Pa. (AP) - A small community in western Pennsylvania stands to benefit from a multimillion dollar gift - if only officials can stop fighting over it. Philanthropist J.M. Hall Jr. left about $3.6 million to the tiny borough of Export. More...
By Joe Mandak ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
PITTSBURGH (AP)- A federal judge does not have the jurisdiction to second-guess security clearance decisions and should throw out a lawsuit by a Muslim scientist who claims he wrongly lost his clearance - and his job - at a nuclear warship plant More...
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